UKCore Hackathon Supporting Guide

This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.

Terminology

Links to developer pages on ontology server

Links Notes
Shrimp Web based application for browsing NHS Digital Terminology Server
NHS Digital Terminology Server Examples Examples/code snippets and Postman collection to help users of the NHS Digital Terminology Server become more familiar with the basic functions and operations of the server

Operations

A number of FHIR Ontology operations are present on the prototype FHIR Validator. These make use of both UKCore and the NHS Digital Terminology Server and are used in the development of UKCore.

Operation HL7 FHIR Links
$expand http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/valueset-operation-expand.html
$validate-code http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/codesystem-operation-validate-code.html
$lookup http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/codesystem-operation-lookup.html

Clinical Observations

An implementation guide around Clinical Observations, including examples of suitable LOINC and SNOMED CT codes can be found here.

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